– Mallory Sutphin I have a childhood best friend who has a birthday on the day I am writing this. Does anyone else have trouble recalling pretty much every detail from their past yet remember things such as this? Marlin on the bus had a birthday back on March 24th. She was so nice to […]
Our next blog post comes from Melissa and features something she is pretty passionate about – strength and conditioning for first responders. We’ve got a ton of first responders at the gym who are trained by or who train alongside Melissa. Melissa has worked in the field for over 15 years, always with a focus […]
I thought it might be cool to switch things up a little bit for this version of our Spotlight. Everybody at the gym knows Mallory now, but most haven’t seen how she’s grown from the person that walked in the door 8 years ago to the coach she is today. She’s one of the few […]
Our next member spotlight features Sarah Blanton. Sarah has been coming in to train several days per week for about 4 years now. While most of her time is spent with our early evening crew, she will occasionally pop in at 5 or 6 am before school if she has a busy day. Not something […]
Somewhere along the way youth athletics have turned into a year around activity. I’m an implant to Maryland so the popularity of Lacrosse was lost on me until I moved here in 2006. Actually it wasn’t until 2010 when I opened up WS&C that I fully understood just how big lacrosse was in this state. […]
Lets start this off by saying that HLM is not a novice program. No matter how strong you think you are, if you have never ran through a simple linear progression on the basic barbell lifts, you will get stronger much quicker by doing that than anything you will read in this article. The […]
This article is especially relevant due to some extremely nice weather we’ve been having here in Maryland lately. It is from our coach Steve Barker and originally appeared on his blog last year at www.barkertraining.com. It’s getting nice out, which means everyone will be (and should be) getting outside more to move around after […]
From the Beau Bryant archives: I stood in a weight room the other day watching about 40 kids squat, press and deadlift. It was one of those rare occasions I wasn’t yelling something at a kid, “shove your knees out”, “chest up!”, “elbows in front of the bar!” All you could hear were the […]
From the Beau Bryant archives: Anthropometry (Greek anthropos – “man”) and (metron – “measure”) “Measurement of Man” In a previous life I may have spent some time working as an interrogator in Iraq. It was fun, I enjoyed it and I was pretty good at it. I often was asked to handle the more […]
Chalk is something a lot of people take advantage of, but nobody ever really stops to think about why it works, or if they’re using too much. Nearly everyone has seen this sight at some point. You walk into the gym and claim your rack, only to find that the bar sitting there has been […]
Eric Shugars So this article was inspired by a few things happening over the past few days. I read a pretty good short blurb from Joe DeFranco on T-Nation titled “Don’t Just Get Tired. Get Better.” Google it – it’s the TL/DR version of this post. Someone new started at our gym who, while squatting on […]
